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Cronus. In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos ( / ˈkroʊnəs / or / ˈkroʊnɒs /, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the ...
Chronos. Chronos ( / ˈkroʊnɒs, - oʊs /; Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, romanized : Khronos, lit. 'Time' , [kʰrónos] ), also spelled Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. [ 1] Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan, Cronus, in antiquity, due to ...
In Greek mythology, Cronius (Ancient Greek: Κρόνιον Kronios means "of Cronus") was the son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Spartaeus and Cytus. When Cronius and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon and ...
Ancient Greek religion. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hestia ( / ˈhɛstiə, ˈhɛstʃə /; Greek: Ἑστία, meaning "hearth" or "fireside") is the virgin goddess of the hearth and the home. In myth, she is the firstborn child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and one of the Twelve Olympians . In Greek mythology, the new-born Hestia ...
Ancient Greece portal. Myths portal. v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. [ 2] They were called Olympians because ...
By the Titan Cronus, Philyra was the mother of the centaur Chiron. [3] Cronus' wife Rhea walked in on them, thereupon Cronus assumed the form of a stallion and galloped away, in order not to be caught by her, hence the half-human, half-equine shape of their offspring; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] this was said to have taken place on Mount Pelion . [ 6 ]
Kronia. The Kronia ( Ancient Greek: Κρόνια) was an Athenian festival held in honor of Kronos ( Cronus) on the 12th day of Hekatombaion, the first month of the Attic calendar, and roughly equivalent to the latter part of July and first part of August. [ a]
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...